search for: bigraw

I have released 3.08-pre10, which includes a version of 'raw' support which should work when the CPU is in big real mode (called 'bigraw', appropriately enough.) Note that it will ALWAYS put DS and ES in big mode; there isn't any really sane way to test if they should be or not. -hpa

...oraz (65 - 8 v. Chr.), r?m. Dichter > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 01. Mai 2005 22:02 > An: Geert Stappers > Cc: syslinux at zytor.com > Betreff: Re: [syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.08-pre10, including > "bigraw" support > > Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > Would you please elaborate that? > > > > Does it mean better support for > QEMU/Bochs/VM-ware/whateverCPUemulator > > or does the announced change break working in such environments? > > > > Nei...

...r specifying the desired length. Double values will be coerced to integer: supplying an argument of length other than one is an error. Since long vectors are supported, it doesn't seem to be true anymore that "double values will be coerced to integer": > bigraw <- vector("raw", 3e9) > length(bigraw) [1] 3e+09 > storage.mode(length(bigraw)) [1] "double" At least not always... Thanks, H. -- Herv? Pag?s Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100...

Hi, I get an "internal error" when calling seek() twice on a gzfile connection. Create a gzip file: bigraw <- sample(charToRaw("abcdef"), 30000000, replace=TRUE) save(bigraw, file="bigraw.rda") Open it: con <- gzfile("bigraw.rda", "rb") Then: > seek(con, where=1) [1] 0 > seek(con, where=24980000) [1] 1 Warning message: In s...

H. Peter Anvin, The following problem came to my attention with memdisk. I cannot claim the credit, but wanted to be sure the information made it back into the program for the benefit of all users... In file memdisk.asm, in respect of the operation of the raw and bigraw options, the order of pop instructions does not correspond to the order registers are pushed; --------------------------------- ; ; Routine to copy in/out of high memory ; esi = linear source address ; edi = linear target address ; ecx = 32-bit word count ; ; Assumes cs = ds = es ; bcopy: push e...

Hi, Thanks a lot for the great tools at syslinux. I have an interesting problem for which i am trying to use memdisk. I have a cluster of 40 machines (same hardware config) all needing a bios flash. Rather than doing it manually, i am trying to use the PXE mode. So i am using memdisk to boot an image of my bios flash floppy over the network. my platform configuration is supermicro motherboards

...it ends at "Please insert a system disk and press any key to continue...", I tried all the way from memdisk-3.54 to 2.13 and 1.76 freezes at Booting. Finally I had a Windows ME boot image, tried with memdisk-3.52, it does not boot, I added safeint, and everything works! At last! Using raw/bigraw make it stop at "Starting Windows Millenium Recovery...", but with safeint it seems to be working perfectly. I would like to add that for every image I tried, I tried to use safeint, raw and bigraw, and after hours of trying, I'm giving up. I also tried loading it from GRUB Legacy, w...

...n just running afud408 (not attempting to update bios, although it freezes then as well.) I was using pxelinux/memdisk 3.36, I upgrade to 3.51, and also fell back to 2.11 all have the same issue. I have tried all the switches for memdisk that I saw posted on the memdisk webpage (non wiki). raw/bigraw caused the image to freeze before even booting. (frozen cursor before loading the boot sector?). The disk image is a Windows 95 boot image that I used winimage to expand to 2.88MB. I use this image for all my bios upgrade needs. This seems to occur on a large amount of MSI's latest offering...

> It would be possible -- in fact, fairly easy -- to hack the > "raw" mode of MEMDISK to drop the system into big real mode > after finishing instead of real mode; such a "bigraw" mode > might solve the problem with this particular program. > > The PC hardware... gotta love it. ok, i don't understand a lot of this; but sounds nice ;) could you please do that? i know (from the mailinglist) some people are having problems when making bios updates with mem...

...4th, A HP/Compaq dx2200 MT, memdisk will not boot the .ima unless the machine has a floppy drive in it, it just gets to 'loading boot sector... booting...' then a flashing cursor under it. I've tried disabling the floppy controller, setting the a: drive to 'none', using raw and bigraw, but no luck. This is with SYSLINUX 3.61 Typically we have more of the HP machines then the other 3 types.... _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile, text MSN to 63463! http://mobile.uk.msn.com/pc/mail.aspx

...08: Success, count = 0, BPT = 0000:0000 old: int13 = f00067c1 int15 = f00067c6 new: int13 = 9e40000a int15 = 9e40037c Loading boot sector... booting... Starting PC DOS... And the cursor sits here blinking until I press Ctrl-Alt-Del. I tried version 3.08 and 3.54-pre1 with the same result. raw, bigraw, safeint or edd didn't help either. What should I try now? -- Thanks, Feri.

Dell has an ISO image (Dell version 5061A0, A5061) available here http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?releaseid=R102625&fileid=132637 which contains an ISO with an hard disk image and no-emulation boot. I've estracted the hard disk image (size=2048000) and I'd like to boot it with isolinux. I tried kernel memdisk append initrd=dell5061.img The Dell/Dos os

...ous motherboards, disk diagnostic tools, memtest86+, etc. I've gotten memtest86+ to work (using the .bin), and some of the disk images work - however, some disk images will not boot. All of the images were pulled from working, bootable floppies. I've tried with and without the floppy, raw, bigraw, c/h/s options - same result every time, it starts loading DOS, then hangs. I'm testing these in VMware Server if that helps - it explains why the drive tests bomb when I actually try to test the "hard drive," at least. If anyone could offer any advice, I would appreciate it. - --...

...en spits out Operating System not found (or some such, basically the image loads but doesn't work) I think I saw at one point that an ancient version of syslinux/memdisk worked fine (2x era), but I am not positive. I will be sure to test that asap to confirm. I have tried the various raw/bigraw/safeint/edd/noedd without luck. Any chance you would have access to a shuttle you can test against? otherwise I will investigate setting up a serial console to the box and getting you remote access. I have tested against 3.70 and still have the same problem. By chance is there a way to set a p...

Hello list, I had to boot a Dell Diagnostic Disk today, and tried doing this via memdisk - which was when I noticed memdisk isn't working for me at all, neither from pxelinux nor syslinux. After trying around with 'raw', 'bigraw' and the like I noticed it doesn't even do anything when just using: LABEL diag KERNEL memdisk .. when I try that: boot: diag nothing more happens. I tried enabling debug tracers but didn't get any more information ... How do I debug this? How can I help fixing this? Kind rega...

This isn't an esp urgent issue, but I'd like to use a certain RAM diagnostic (Doc Mem) which I've already posted a note about a couple of months ago. Simply won't work booting the floppy disk image via MEMDISK. In the interim, I've tried to resolve this by changing things on my side. I'm pretty sure it's a XMS incompatibility, as it fails differently depending on

For the boot floppy at http://superkeen.com/peacecorpsfiles/FUZOMA14.IMG using memdisk from syslinux version 3.72 boots correctly, but for memdisk versions newer than 3.72 (I tested 3.73, 3.75, 3.85, and 3.86) all hang at boot with the following message: Loading boot sector... booting FreeDOS kernel - SVN (build 2039 OEM:0xfd [compiled Oct 2 2009]) Kernel compatibility 6.22 - BORLANDC ... XMGR,

...9;t working! Memdisk loads the Image and boots the HD! The error message is something like this: I/O Device Error... Replace disk and press any key The interessting thing is that this message appears in German and the only german thing in this VM is the dos installation. I tried to use raw or bigraw mode, but this doesn't solve the problem. I tried also to create the image like this: dd if=/dev/hda of=dos.img bs=512 count=[number of sectors] thx in advance

Hi. I'm working on replacing a PXELINUX/MEMDISK loaded DOS based installation image with a PXELINUX/MEMDISK loaded WinPE ISO image. So far everything seems to work well (appending "bigraw" to memdisk solved booting problems on several machines), but I kind of miss the option of using getargs.com to get/set environment variables from the memdisk command line. Is there any way to access memdisk command line arguments from within WinPE (x86/win32 and hopefully amd64/win64)? Chee...

...pd are "working as they should". What I've tried so far is to just load the .iso with install media using memdisk. The iso got downloaded and asked to press key to run CD/DVD but then continued to boot from hdd. *label Windows 2008 R2* * kernel win2008R2/memdisk* * append iso bigraw initrd=win2008R2/W2k8R2PXE.img* Second idea is to use WinPE and then create a boot script to get the real media but so far I can't get the WinPE to load. *label WinPE* * com32 linux.c32 winpe/wimboot* * append wimboot* * initrdfile=winpe/bootmgr,winpe/bcd,winpe/boot.sdi,winpe/winpe....